Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026(screams)John Morgan@johnmorgan3.bsky.socialUK is pulling its funding for Cern's Large Hadron Collider upgrade, STFC leader Michele Dougherty confirms, after news first revealed by @francesjones.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social "We simply don’t have the money to do everything." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...researchprofessionalnews.com‘Difficult’ two years ahead for physics, warns STFC boss - Research Professional NewsMichele Dougherty confirms withdrawal from LHC upgrade and indicates scant money for new projects 75322
Murmorana @murmorana.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The question is whether a new collider will provide a material advance in physics or more of the same. 100
Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026bsky.app/profile/samc...Sam Coleridge@samcoleridge.bsky.socialAnd her predecessor at STFC Mark Thomson, implicitly criticised in her rationalisation, just became Director general of CERN.. 000
EuphoricFuzion🕯️ @euphoricfuzion.bsky.social · 05/02/2026WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!???!?!????!!?!!!! the world's really ending, huh? 000
John Packwood @johnpackwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Feels like we don't have the money to do anything right now. 020
lizziec.bsky.social @lizziec.bsky.social · 05/02/2026(Screams and bangs head against wall repeatedly) 000
Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Not the high-luminosity collider upgrade, thankfully, but improvements to LHCb, apparently. bsky.app/profile/john...John Womersley@johnwomersley.bsky.socialLHCb experiment upgrade, to be clear. 130
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